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Flash the color orange in front of
a zebra and it will not be able to see it. So, be careful not to
paint a wall orange where zebras wander! |
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Polar bears look white, but they
actually have black skin. |
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Dolphins sleep with one eye open. |
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A giraffe can clean its ears with
its 21 inch tongue. |
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There are only two animals with a
blue tongue: chow chow dog and the blue tongue lizard. |
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Most cats in Halifax (Nova Scotia)
have six toes. |
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You thought that only you need
sunscreen? Well pigs, walruses and light-colored horses are
prone to get sunburned. |
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Which fruit does a reindeer like
most? Bananas! And you thought it was the favorite fruit of
monkeys and humans. |
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A goat's eyes have got
rectangular pupils. |
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Apart from human’s even
chimpanzees can learn to recognize their own image in a mirror.
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A headless cockroach can survive
for a couple of weeks. Its life would finally end due to
starvation! |
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A snail can sleep for three years,
at a stretch. |
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While human fingerprints are a
means of their identification; the nose prints are a means of
identifying dogs. |
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Did you know the lion would be
defeated by a polar bear in a battle between the two? |
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This is really interesting! You
will not believe this one! A mosquito has 47 teeth. |
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The Poison Arrow frog has enough
poison stored in it that it can harm 2,200 people at one go.
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A goldfish can live up
to 40 years. |
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The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the
world. |
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An ostrich can run up to 70 km/h (43mph). |
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An ostrich egg can make approx. eleven and a half omelets. |
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An annoyed camel will spit at a person. |
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A rat can live without water longer than a camel can. |
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Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears. |
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African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food
with. |
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Elephants are the only animal that can't jump. |
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An elephant can smell water three miles away. |
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The tongue of
a blue whale is as long as an elephant. |
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There are
about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million
are in India. |
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The oldest
breed of dog is the Saluki. |
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A dog was the
first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first
to fly in a hot air balloon. |
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The world's
smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means "tiny dog in the
sky." |
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An ant's sense of
smell is as good as a Dog's. |
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There are 701
types of pure breed dogs. |
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There are
about 54 million dogs in the US, and Paris is said to have
more dogs than people. |
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Pea crabs (the
size of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world. |
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75% of wild
birds die before they are 6 months old. |
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The pig is
rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned
only twice in the Bible. |
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In Denmark
there are twice as many pigs as people. |
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Pork is the
world's most widely-eaten meat. |
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A giraffe can
clean its ears with its 50cm (20 in) tongue. |
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The South
American giant anteater eats more than 30,000 ants a day. |
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The sailfish
is the fastest swimmer, reaching 109 km/h (68 mph). |
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The slowest
fish is the Sea Horse, which moves along at about 0.016 km/h
(0.01 mph). |
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Dolphins can
reach 60 km/h (37 mph). |
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Of the 650
types of leeches, only the Hirudo medicinalis is used for
medical treatments. |
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The heart of a
blue whale is the size of a small car. |
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A crocodile's
tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move
it. |
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Sharks are
immune to all known diseases. |
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Animals also
are either right-handed or left-handed. Polar bears are
left-handed - and so is Kermit the Frog. |
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Fish and
insects do not have eyelids - their eyes are protected by a
hardened lens. |
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Millions of
trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts
and then forget where they hid them. |
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There are more
than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million
people. |
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New Zealand is
home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep. |
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A
kangaroo can't jump unless its tail touches the ground. |
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A
lion's roar can be heard from five miles away. |
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Alligators can live for more than 100 years. |
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A giraffe's tongue is
about 21 inches long. |
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A shark can grow
a new set of teeth in a week. |
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A crocodile's tongue
is attached to the roof of its mouth. |
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A snail can sleep for
3 years. |
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A strand of spider web
may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel. |
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Starfish don't have
brains. |
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A hummingbird weighs
less than a penny. |
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A crocodile's
tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move
it. |
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A hedgehog's
heart beats 300 times a minute. |
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An adult blue
whale's heart beats about 6 times a minute. |
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A cockroach
can go nine days without eating. |
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A horse has 18
more bones than a human. |
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Alligators
cannot move backwards. |
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All polar bears are left-handed. |
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Penguins can
jump as high as 6 feet in the air. |
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A blue whale
is the loudest animal. |
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More people
each year are killed from bees than from snakes. |
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A blue whale's
tongue is so large that 50 people could stand on it. |
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It is possible
for one female cat to be responsible for the birth of 20,736
kittens in four years. |
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Turtles can
breathe through their butts. |
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Tiger sharks
can have anywhere from 10 to 80 young in one birth. |
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An ant can
lift 50 times its own weight. |
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It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound. |
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Some bird species, usually
flightless birds, have only a lower eyelid, whereas pigeons
use upper and lower lids to blink. |
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Sheep are mentioned 45 times
and goats 88 times in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 times
and lions 89 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned. |
